# Have you ever seen a modern home with no bathrooms? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460 "2012-02-20T21:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/1 "2012-02-20T21:24:29Z")
[This](http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2967-Burgaw-Hwy-Jacksonville-NC-28540/2127056170_zpid/) modern-looking home is on the market. I’m still trying to wrap my head around it being built without a bathroom. My house is twice as old and has 1 1/2 bathrooms. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/2 "2012-02-20T21:28:52Z")
nope. never seen a house without a bathroom. You sure it isn’t just a data entry error? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/3 "2012-02-20T21:30:23Z")
Building a house without a bathroom is a code violation. It’s got to be a mistake on the listing. From the picture, it’s got a soil stack vent on the roof, so it’s got indoor plumbing. ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/4 "2012-02-20T21:30:33Z")
Are you sure it’s not just a typo in the listing? (I can’t get the page to work properly and can’t be arsed to muck with it.) I’ve lived in a couple of older farmhouses that had bathrooms added much later than the original house, but none that came without them completely. My aunt built a house in the 70s without bathrooms - but it was in the end of nowhere Minnesota, and she was a bit odd. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/5 "2012-02-20T21:54:57Z")
I haven’t thought that it’d be a data entry error. If it is, the owners are probably wondering why they haven’t received a single inquiry yet. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/6 "2012-02-20T21:56:03Z")
Must be a typo, or else whoever was entering the information had conflicting reports and wasn’t sure what to put. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/7 "2012-02-20T21:58:38Z")
Not in real life, but the one bathroom for the six kids in the _Brady Bunch_ house lacked a bath and a toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/8 "2012-02-20T22:02:39Z")
Yeah… If I ran across that listing, my first thought would be “It doesn’t say how many bathrooms there are,”\* not \*“It doesn’t have any bathrooms!” ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/9 "2012-02-20T22:05:17Z")
Coz I just gotta know sometimes - have asked real estate person. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/10 "2012-02-20T22:12:28Z")
The link shows a single bathroom when I looked at it. Must have been an entry error when you saw it. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/11 "2012-02-20T22:25:22Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Not in real life, but the one bathroom for the six kids in the _Brady Bunch_ house lacked a bath and a toilet. What do you think the sink is for? ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/12 "2012-02-20T22:32:57Z")
Define modern. My grandfather built a house in New Brunswick, Canada in the nineteen teens that had no internal plumbing (or electrcity, for that matter). My mother was born there and the family lived there full-time until the 1940’s. Got electrified in the 1960’s, but never had plumbing. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/13 "2012-02-20T22:36:43Z")
There’s plumbing Canada? Well fancy that! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/14 "2012-02-20T23:29:49Z")
> [@redtail23](#): > > …My aunt built a house in the 70s without bathrooms - but it was in the end of nowhere Minnesota, and she was a bit odd. Did she have an outhouse? Just shat in the yard? Inquiring minds need to know! ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/15 "2012-02-21T00:45:36Z")
There are 2, according to another site. [http://idx.homesearchjacksonvillenc.com/idx/5522/details.php?idxID=350&listingID=61839](http://idx.homesearchjacksonvillenc.com/idx/5522/details.php?idxID=350&listingID=61839) ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/16 "2012-02-21T01:32:24Z")
I live in an apartment with no real bathroom. We have a weird cheap deal because the apartments need to be renovated (duh, there’s no bathroom). They’ve put in an odd sort of shower unit in the hall to make it liveable. The houses date from the 1920s and apparently most other people on the block had some form of bathroom installed at some stage, but the freaks who lived there before us… didn’t. So although there is a shower and a toilet, there is no bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/17 "2012-02-21T01:52:18Z")
I think a shower and a toilet count as 3/4 of a bathroom in US real-estate language. However, I’d be surprised if a 2-bedroom house with a garage only had that. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/18 "2012-02-21T01:55:38Z")
Ha…I grew up in Jacksonville, NC. There were plenty of reasons why I escaped small town NC life, but a lack of bathrooms wasn’t one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/19 "2012-02-21T02:36:14Z")
A little sleuthing suggests that the listing has the address wrong, too. Google Depressing Street View seems to show that crap shack as 2961 Burgaw Hwy, a property that Onslow County elsewhere lists as having 2 bathrooms. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460/20 "2012-02-21T03:30:29Z")
Plumbing and Electricity are required in most zoning areas. Some places issue a Certificate of Occupancy after a home is built & inspected. > **[Certificate of occupancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_occupancy)** > > A certificate of occupancy is a document issued by a local government agency or building department certifying a building's compliance with applicable building codes and other laws, and indicating it to be in a condition suitable for occupancy. > The procedure and requirements for the certificate vary widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and on the type of structure. In the United States, obtaining a certificate is generally required whenever: > The purpose of obtaining a certificate of occupan... People frown on taking a dump in the backyard these days. 😉 Maybe 100 miles out in the boondocks you might get away with no plumbing. I’ve even read newspaper articles where someone living in a house without utilities had to move or find the money to get them turned on. Its so dangerous to use the bathroom all the time outside. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-modern-home-with-no-bathrooms/613460.md?page=2)